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E ccc miq ciicdc flc Wmsw UNITED STATES GEORGE PRITUHARD, OF SEAFORTH,

PATENT OFFrca NEAR LIVERPOOL, COUNTY OF LAN- LAND.

PACKET-LABELING MACHlNE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 252,137, dated January 10, 1882. Application filed September 17, 1881. (No model.) Patented in England March 23, 1861.

- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE PRITOHARD, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Seaforth, near Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, England, have invented'certain new or Improved Machinery and Apparatus for Labeling Packets of Powdered Materials and other Commodities, (for which I have received Letters Patent in England, No. 1,299, dated :0 23d March, 1881,) of which the following is a specification. n

My invention consists ,of the construction and'combination of parts of machinery, hereinafter described, for labeling packets of powdered materials and other commodities, and also of'apparatus, hereinafter described, to be used in connection with theimproved labeling machinery. The packetsof powdered materials, having been closed andrewrapped, are placed in inclined sluices or channels, by which they are conveyed to the labeling-machine, one portion of which consists of a horizontal sliding platform containing divisions, in which piles of labels are placed and a series of pasting-slabs, 2 5 whichis brought at the proper times under vertically-sliding taking-off blocks or plungers. While the taking-off blocks are in their raised positions the traveling platform is moved in a direction proper to carry it under a brush or 0 brushes charged with paste, whereby a film or layer of paste is deposited on the corrugated surfaces of the pasting-slabs. Paste-wells on each side of the pasting-slabs supply paste to the brushes by the motion of the traveling plat- 3 5 form. By the movement described of the travelingplatform the pasting-slabs are brought immediately under the movable taking olf blocks or plungers, by the descent of which onto the pasting-slabs the said blocks take up 0 pastefrom the said slabs. Thetaking-off blocks rising, the traveling platform is further moved in the same direction, so as to bring the divisions containing the piles of labels under the raised taking-0E blocks. The taking-off blocks 4 5 havingpaste on their underfaces are now made to descend upon the upper labels of the piles of labels, and the said taking-off blocks, rising, pigklup and carry with them the said upper 1a e s. a

Another part of the machine consists of a 0 folder, which is next brought into operation. This folder consists of a series of j ointed leaves or hinged flaps capable of folding around the packets, and aseries of division-plates for separating the several packets. The folder Works in guides, and is brought by a horizontal sliding motion over the piles of labels before described in the traveling platform, the spaces between the division-plates of the folder coming immediately under the taking-off blocks having labels on their under side. In bringing the folder into this position its fore end strikes against a holding-down catch and places it in such a position that when the taking-olf blocks descend thesaid blocks are held in their lowered position. The descent of the taking-01f blocks brings the labels on their under sides upon the surface of the folder. By means of a lever-gripe running nearly the whole length of the folder the unpasted ends of the several labels are griped or held by it. The traveling platform, together with the folder, is next moved from under the taking-off blocks. By this motion the labels are drawn from off the underside of the taking-off blocks onto the folder and the paste distributed uniformly over the surface of the said labels.

By the last-described movement of the platform the labels are brought under the guide spouts or chutes ofa pocketed drum containing the packets of powdered material to be labeled. As the traveling platform is moved under the guide spouts or chutes a projection on one end of the platform carrying the folder strikes against one of aseries of pawls on one end of the pocketed drum, causing the latter to be partly rotated and the packets contained in one set of the divisions to be thrown down the guide-spouts and deposited upon the pasted surfaces of the labels lying on the folder. The traveling platform has now a slight to-and-fro motion given to it for the purpose of placing the several packets lying upon the labels in the same line. The position of the folder is now changed by sliding it along guides, forming a lateral continuation of the traveling platform. The folder is next brought under swing-arms, at the lower extremities of which an angular longitudinal stop orhalf-tray is situated, which holds the packets in position while the folding leaves or flaps of the folder (after the ends of the labels have been released from the gripe) envelop or embrace the ends of the packets, and thereby press the labels around the said packets. The foldingflaps being opened leaves the packets which have been thus labeled between the division-plates on the folder. In the packets thus labeled the principal part of the labels are undermost, and in order to remove them from the folder and reverse the packets a rectangular trough-tbrmed box is placed over the packets on the division plates, gaps or passages made in one side of the said box passing over the said division-plates. By drawiugthe box from off the folder the packets are carried with it, and by inverting the box the several packets are inverted, so as to bring the principal portions of the labels uppermost.

I will now proceed to describe, with reference to the accompanying drawings, the manner in which my invention is to be performed.

Figures 1, 2, and 3 represent longitudinal vertical sections of the labeling-machine, the parts being in different positions. Fig. at represents a plan of aportiou of the machine-with the folderin its withdrawn or back position, the slidingtaking-ofibloeksorplungers beingomitted. Fig. 5 represents the machine partly in side elevation and part] yin vertical section, the sectional parts being taken through the piles of labels, the folder being shown in its advanced position under the piles of labels. Fig. 6 represents a-portion of the machine in section, takenthrough the pasting-slabs. Figs. 7,8,9, and 10 represent, drawn to a larger scale, end elevations, partly in section, of the lateral continuation of the traveling platform carrying the folder, the said Figs. 7, 8, 9, and 10 exhibiting the action'of the folder. Fig,1l represents in perspective, partly in section, drawn to alarger scale, the serrated lever-gripe used for holding down the uupasted ends of the labels. a

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in Figs. 1 to 11, both inclusive.

eis the horizontal sliding platform, supported on wheels and working on the base f'of the machine, and e is the lateral extension of the said platform, carrying the folder. (See Fig. 4.) The said horizontal sliding platform 0 carries the following parts, namely: the series of parallel piles of labels 9 g g, the series of parallel pasting-slabs h h h, having corrugated surfaces, and the pasting-wells i t on each side of the said pasting-slabs h.

t Fare the brushes by which paste is supplied from the wells 6 i to the pasting-slabs h as the traveling platform is moved in either direction. The lateral extension 0 of the traveling platform 0 carries the folder k, consisting of aseries ofjointed leaves or flaps. The said folder it is furnished with a series of crossdivision plates or bars, 10 R for separating the several packets. The said folder is jointed at raised.

k by one of its flaps, to the bed-plate Z, which works in the lateral extension 0 of the traveling platform 0, and is also capable of being advanced on the guides Z Z (see Fig. 4) over the piles of labels g g g on the principal traveling platform 0, (see Figs. 2 and 3,) where the said folder and its sliding bed-plate are represented in their advanced position. The sliding bedplate I of the folder carries the lever-gripe l for griping the unpasted ends of the series of labels. The said lever-gripe is carried by the roller 1, extending the whole length of the folder it, the ends of the said roller turningiu hearings in thefolder-bed Z. (See Fig.4and the enlarged views, Figs. 7, 8, 9, l0, and ll.) The said lever-gripe l is raised and lowered by the handle l, and is held in its depressed acting position by the catch Z.

Along one side of the folder it is an iudiarubber seat, 1", between which and the corrugated or undulating edge of the lever gripe the labels are held or griped.

t t are the vertically-sliding takingoft' blocks or plungers. The said blocks t t are arranged or strung upon the trough-shaped support t the trough havingalittle play within the blocks. The support t is connected by the links t t to the connected levers t t, the latter beingjointed at t to the fixed frame of the machine. The links t t turn on the stay-rod t passing through the hollow or trough support 23 By raising or lowering the levers t t the trough-support t rises or falls and carries with it the series of plungers or taking-off blocks t t. The said blocks t t work in guides in the uprights of the machine. The taking-off blocks t t are held in their lowered positions by the lever-catch 15 (See Figs. 5 and 6.) This catch is operated by the sliding bed lot the folder it. The said bed, when advanced over thepiles of labels g g on the principal platform 6, puts the lever-catch 25 into the position represented in Fig. 5, and on the descent of the taking-off blocks t t the projecting part a on the said blocks pushes back the jointed catch it, which catch, after the part a has passed it, passes over the said part and holds down the taking-off blocks while the pasted labels are drawn from under the said blocks, as hereinafter explained. When the folder it on the folder-bed lis withdrawn to the position represented in Fig. 4 the levereateh t returns to the position represented in Fig. 6, and the taking-off blocks 15 t may be m is the pocketed and divided rotary drum into which the packets to be labeled are conveyed by the inclined guide spouts orehutes m the said packets being removed from the said drum by the delivery-spouts m and deposited onto the pasted surfaces of the labels lying on the folder it. The drum m is rotated,

, through the required angle, so as to deliver the series of packets from its compartments at the proper time, by the action of the projection or shoulder e on the traveling platform 6 upon one of the pawls m on the said pocketeddiuin';

m. (See Figs.2 and 3.) The packets are prevented from being thrown out of the pockets during the partial rotation of the drum by the fixed guide-arm m and the roller m carried by ajointed arm at the mouths of the delivcry-chutes m regulates the'fall of the packets onto the pasted labels on the folder. A brake, of, (see Figs. 2 and 3,) pressed upon the drum m by a weighted cord, steadies its motion and retains it in the position to which it has been brought by the action of the platform 0.

. The action of the machine is as follows: I will first describe the way in which the labels are pasted and conveyed to the folder. The traveling platform e being in the position represented in Fig. 1, it is moved to the left hand.

By this movement the pasting-slabs h h are brought underthe taking-off blocks t t, the said slabs having had deposited on their corrugated surfaces a film or layer of paste received. from the brushes 2' as the said slabs passed under them. By the descent of the taking-off blocks 75 upon the pastingslabs It, as illustrated in Fig. 3, the taking-off blocks receive paste from the said slabs. Thetaking-off blocks hbeing allowed to rise, the traveling platform 0 is moved into the position represented in Fig. 1, so as to bring the series of piles of labels 9 under the raised taking-off blocks t. The taking-otfblocks t, having paste on their underfaces, are now made to descend upon the upper labels of the piles of labels g, and the said taking off blocks,

rising, pick up and carry with them the said upper labels, those ends of the labels projectin g from the taking-off blocks being un pasted, as seen in Fig. 1, where a label is indicated in dotted lines, the unpasted end being marked 9 The parts being in the position lastdescribed, the bed Z, carrying the folder it, is pushed from the lateral extension e? of the traveling platform e over the piles of labels 9 g in the principal part of the traveling platform, as illustrated in Fig. 2, the said motion of the folderbedl bringing into its changed position the.

lever-catch t for holding down the taking-off blocks when they next descend. The takingoff blocks carrying the pasted labels arenow made to descend upon the folder '70, as illustrated in Fig. 2, and are held there by the lever-catch t",- but the said catch permits the taking-off blocks to rise slightly to partl liberate the labels and to clear the said blocks from the face of the folder. The lever-gripe l is now turned down by its handle Z, so as to gripe the unpasted ends 9 of the labels between its edge and the elastic seat i the said gripe being held in its griping position by the catch 1 (See Fig. 7.) The traveling platform e, together with the folder is, is now moved into the position represented in Fig. 3. By this movement the labels are drawn from off the under sides of the taking-off blocks It onto the folder hand the paste distributed uniformly over the surface of the said labels, and the pasting-slabs are again brought under the taking-off blocks,

as represented.

By the last-described movement of the traveling platform 0 the labels are brought under the delivery spouts or chutes m of the pocketed drum m, containing the packets c c of powde: ed material. moved under the said spouts m the projection e on the said platform strikes against one of the pawls m on the drum on and gives rotation to the said drum through such an angle as will cause the packets c 0 contained in one set of the divisions or pockets to be thrown down the guide or delivery spouts m and deposited on the pasted surfaces of the labels lying on the folder 7a,,the packets passing between the division-bars k on the said folder. By now giving the traveling platform a slight to-and-fro motion the several packets lying upon the la- As the traveling platform eis bels on the folder are placed in the same line i blocks t, as seen in Fig. 3, so that the taking,

off blocks may receive a coatingof paste, ready on the return-stroke of the traveling platform to pick up another set of labels from the piles g, and so on. The packets 0 having been de-:

posited in the manner described on the folder it: (see Fig. 3) and separated from each other by the division-bars 70 the bed l, carrying the folder 7g, is drawn from over the sets of labels g andreturned to the lateral extension 6 of the traveling platform, as seen in Fig. 4.

The further action of the machine by which the labels are folded upon and pasted t0 the packets will be best understood by referring .to Figs. 7, 8, 9, and 10. i The folder k, with the labels and packets upon it, having been brought into the position Fig. 4, the lever-gripe l is re- 7 moved from the unpasted ends of the labels, as illustrated in Fig. 8, and the angular longitudinalstop or half-tray o, carried by the swingarms 11 and axis '0 is lowered and brought over and pressed upon the packets 0, so as to 'hold them in position during the first stage of the labeling operation, as represented in Fig.

8. By now folding the leaves or flaps of the folder it upon the packets 0, commencing at the seat end P of the folder, the said-leaves or flaps are made to envelop or' embrace the said packets c, and thereby press the pasted labels around the packets, as represented in Fig. 9.

A packet labeled in the manner described is represented in Figs. 12 and 13. As soon as the unpasted ends of the labels have been folded upon the packets the stop or half tray '0 is loosened when it returns to its normal position by the action of the counterbalance-weight w. The flapsof the folder being opened leaves the packets which have been thus labeled between the division-bars k on the folder k.

The labeled. packets have the principal part of the labels on their under sides, and in order readily to reversethe packets and remove them from the folder I use a rectangular troughformed box of the kind represented in side elevation in Fig. 14 and horizontal section in Fig". 15, and marked 00. In one side of the said box 00 are gaps or slots 00 which can pass over the division-bars k on the folder. By placing the trough-box as over the labeled packets on the folder, as illustrated in Fig. 10 and in the sepa rate view, Fig. 16, and drawing the box from off the folder, the packets 0 o are carried onto a table, 1 where the said box is inverted by supporting it againstthe shoulder 3 The several packets are thus inverted so as to bring the principal parts of the labels uppermost. One of the trough-boxes after it has been inverted is shown at 3 Fig. 17.

The labeled packets are packed for sale in the ordinary way.

The labeling machinery described and represented may be used for labeling packets generally.

Having now described the nature of my invention and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I claim as my invention of new or improved machinery and apparatus for labeling" packets ofpowdered materials and other commodities- 1. In a labeling-machine, the traveling platform carrying a series of labels, pasting-slabs,

paste-wells, and a folder, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the traveling platform and pasting-slabs thereon, of the vertically-sliding taking-off blocks or plungers, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with the traveling platform and taking-off blocks or plungers, of the folder and lever-gripe, substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. In a labeling-machine, the combination, with the traveling platform, of the pocketed drum, operated by the movement of said platform, substantially as described.

5. The combination, with the traveling platform and parts connected therewith, of the folder supported on a sliding bed-plate, substantially as described.

6. A labeling-machine comprising a traveling platform, pasting-slabs, paste-wells, and folder carried by said platform, a pocketed drum, and taking-off blocks or plungers, all combined and operating substantially as described.

GEORGE PRITOHARD' [L.s.] Witnesses:

W. P. PAULL,

Vice (mclDepu-ty Consul, U. 8.11., at Liverpool.

W. J. SULIs,

U. S. Consulate, Liverpool. 

